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fame manner as the Worms in cheefe and fleth, 
at length intirely enclofe themfelves in thofe 
aliments. And hence it is very probable, that 
thefe Humble Bee Worms likewife feed on the 
wax wherewith they are covered and furround- 
ed, nearly in the fame manner as the Wolf- 
Caterpillar ufes the wax for food, and fupports 
life: this I fhall hereafter defcribe in its place. 
Otherwife it would be neceflary that the Hum- 
ble Bees fhould, in order to. nourifh. their 
Worms, continually open and again clofe up 
thefe cells; which would be a work of tedious 
and needlefs labour, fuch as cannot be any 
where found in the works of nature, which 
are every where perfectly fimple. The me- 
thod of nourifhment I have fuppofed becomes 
.more probable, if we confider the order in 
which the Humble Bees enclofe their eggs in 
this matter; for Ido not think it poffible that 
the Humble Bees can fo exactly know the 
time when the Worms are to be excluded 
from the eggs, and when thefe cells fhould be 
opened, becaufe they may be in want of food. 
To this may be added, that the matter where- 
with the eggs are covered, can fearce be torn 
open any way without hurting them: but I 
fhall leave this matter in uncertainty, until re- 
peated and more fuccefsful examinations deter- 
mine it. That I may proceed in my intended 
ed method, I thall obferve here, that I likewife 
{aw an empty cell in this neft. This was like- 
wife made of filaments or threads, and it feems 
to me probable that a young Humble Bee had 
crept out of it. At length I alfo broke thofe 
irregular particles of wax, which were in divers 
places found affixed to the woven cells of the 
Humble Bees: in one of thefe I found fix eggs, 
Tab. XXVI. fig. 1. d, ina fecond feventeen e, 
and in the laft twenty-three / Thefe eggs 
were pretty large, fomewhat crooked, and were 
faftened to. the pointed extremity of the fub- 
ftance on which they were placed. When 
they were viewed with a microfcope, they ap- 
peared like that kind of rough skin which 
we call fhagreen. They were of a milk white 
colour, and fall of moifture, and they all ftood 
erect and fo near each other, that they were 
almoft contiguous; this made a very beautiful 
appearance. Ia long time preferved them as 
well within as out of the matter wherein they 
were enclofed, but they grew dry in the mean 
time; nor were any Worms hatched from 
them. Many Lice of unequal fize, and which 
are very tenacious of life, crawl upon the Hum- 
ble Bees themfelves. 1 obferve alfo, that the 
Ants, and almoft all other infects, are torment- 
ed with their refpeCtive Lice. Goedaert calls 
thefe Lice the Humble Bees excitatores or pro- 
vokers, and-has invented feveral amufing fto- 
ries concerning them, but he relates a fable 
rather than a true hiftory. 
It is time we now defcribe the parts of the 
male Bee. I hall here follow the fame me- 
thod I obferved in the hiftory of the female, 
and fhall deferibe only thofe parts of the head, 
ofa, NEARS UG Rese. 
in excrefcences, in plants and fruits, in the. 
or; 
breaft and body, which either-are not in the» 
working Bee, or are feen plainer and more. 
perfect in the male. 
About the head are principally to be confi= 
dered the eyes, horns, teeth, and the feather- 
like hairs, wherewith the head is every where 
covered, I have already elfewhere treated of 
fome of thefe parts; therefore I thall now 
defcribe the eyes, in which the following par- 
ticulars are to be obferved on the in and out- 
fide: the number of the eyes; the external fiz 
gure; the hairs fixed on their upper part; the: 
tunica cornea, and the uvea; the internal pyra- 
midal and inverted fibres; the pulmonary tubes 
which run between thefe firft and fecond mem- 
branes, wherein the pyramidal fibres terminate ; 
the tran{verfe cortical fibres, con{picuous under 
thefe membranes; the cortical fubftance of the, 
brain, fituated under thofe fibres; the brain 
itfelf with the three fingular eyes over it; the: 
origination of the fpinal marrow juft under it ; 
the origins of the pulmonary tubes; and laftly, 
the internal furface of the eye. 
As to the number of eyes, there are here 
two principal or large ones, one in each fide of 
the head; and befide thefe three fingular {mall 
eyes which are here in the male, Tab. XX. 
fig. I. @, in a triangular form between and be- 
low the larger eyes, in that part where thefe 
larger eyes are contiguous to, and again diverge 
from each other in form of the letter Y. In - 
the females and working Bees, as has been ob- 
ferved before, thefe three eyes are fituated 
higher up in the head, and lie pretty exadtly 
between two larger eyes. But I fhall fay fome- 
thing more of this matter hereafter. 
The two larger eyes refemble as it were a 
crefcent, with this difference, that in the up-- 
per on the head they are fharp-pointed, but 
fomewhat rounded 44; towards the lower parts 
c near the teeth, they again meet ina point.: 
They are in form like a fegment cut from a 
flattifh rounded mafs, one fide whereof is 
fomewhat acute, and hollowed or bent in- 
wards, and the other converges in a crooked 
form. In the upper part of the head toward 
the neck and back, thefe eyes are contiguous: 
in their convex extuberant part, which is not 
the cafe in the two other kinds of Bees: but 
they again, on the lower part toward the teeth, 
where they become {till more acute c, confi- 
derably diverge from each other on each fide ; 
the fmaller eyes, the horns, which are here 
fevered ff, the teeth as they are called, and 
forme feather-like hairs d being fituated in the 
intermediate {pace. . 
Both the eyes are alfo very thick covered 
with hair eee, which, in order to avoid con- 
fufion, [here reprefent only on one fide. Thefe 
hairs ferve the eyes inftead of eye-brows or 
eye-lafhes; but becaufe their fituation cannot 
be exactly underftood, until after that coat of 
the eye which fupports them is defcribed, I 
{hall therefore now firft treat of that coat, the 
cornea, in which thefe hairs take root. 
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